Hi all,
I'm new to posting on here, so hope this is the right place/way to do this.
I got into making cbg's while carrying out research for an academic article on the growing cbg scene in the UK. My article has recently been published in the journal
Read more…Does anyone have information to contact the man in UK to purchase juju pickups.
the address I found will not make contact from USA, thanks for any help. Ronald
Read more…hey guys, how long does it take you from start to finish in building a cigar box guitar, and do you have any advise,secrets to not spending to much time on a cbg
Read more…You've shaped the neck, cut the soundholes and put all those glorious electronics inside. Now it's time to attach the lid to the box!
In the video below, I show the simple way that I attach the lid. As you can see, I prefer to use "drop in lid" ci
Read more…Get the most out of your acoustic/electric cigar box guitars with an inexpensive piezo rod & preamp unit.
In this video, I show a simple mounting technique for neck-through cigar box guitars. The sound is fantastic and really allows a great tone re
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"Come on, brothers and sisters, KICK OUT THE CANS!"
For our final build-off contest of 2017, we're looking for your best canjos, cookie tin banjos and any other playable stringed instrument made from discarded metal containers. It can have one st
Hey y'all, so when I started fretting I went with a StewMac fretsaw which does a fantastic job. But I have chronic hand/wrist issues, and the labor of hand cutting the slots leaves me hurting. I watched a bunch of videos a while back and saw one on c
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply returns with another country cover for one-finger cigar box guitar playing. We love these lessons because they allow ANYBODY to play a cigar box guitar with this simple method.
Here is "You'll Never Leave Har
Read more…Amazing Grace continues to be one of our most requested lessons. Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply shows you how to play the entire thing using just one finger. You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
We heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has taken the great singalong rocker, Take It On the Run by REO Speedwagon and arranged it for one-finger playing! You'll need a 3-string cigar box gu
Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply has broken down Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic Bad Moon Rising and shows you how to play the entire thing with one finger! You'll need a 3-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDG.
Shane Speal's back with one of the most useful lessons for cigar box guitar sellers looking for the ultimate riff that will draw people to their booth. Speal shows how to use a simple G major scale on a three-string slide CBG and a Roland MicroCube
Read more…Glenn Watt of C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply takes one of the most popular songs of the 1970's teaches you how to play the entire thing with one finger! This John Denver classic is very easy to play using Glenn's simplified technique. You'll need a 3-
Read more…I hope to make a Diddly Bow in the near future, but in looking over photos and videos of such, I wasn't too hep on either not having a headstock or simply modifying one that really wasn't all that impressive. That was when I started looking for somet
Read more…Greetings!
So I am in the process of building my first CBG- THREE string- so far, so good- I'm almost done! I do, however, have one major concern, and that is string spacing.
I decided to use a door hinge for my tailpiece... however, it seems that
Read more…First off, I'm still a newbie 'round here and not sure if this should be a blog post instead. This is my first time starting a 'discussion'. I figure it's easier to reply here if someone has a question or new idea. So anyway...
I'm a tinkerer. I can
Read more…Making a Bottle Top Slide
Hey People. So I've learned how to make bottle top slides...successfully. It took a lot of time and a lot of failure, but with persistence I did find the best method for cutting glass. Rather than let the knowledge die with
Read more…I'm wanting to write my own tabs for my slide CBG but don't know which program to use. I do have MuseScore on my pc, but I couldn't figure out a way to make a three line stave template. I'm wondering how others are doing this. If there is a work a
Read more…So my most recent build seems fine without a sound hole. After I put it together I gave it a play, and I just don't hear a need for the addition of a hole in the body. The body is 1/4" ply, which seems to resonate just fine and produce plenty of sou
Read more…I have a cbg and scale measures 610 mm ( 24 " ) . The stringing I used was 0.011 caliber . I tried to tune like this: low G middle D middle G I could tune the strings G low and middle D , but the middle G string is breaking when I try to tune . I
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